Tontons announce free club show to make up for set canceled due to Summer Fest evacuation

This past Saturday afternoon Houston indie act The Tontons were just one of a few bands that had to abandon their Summer Fest sets for the weather evacuation ordered by festival organizers just before 2 p.m.

Today the band announced that they will be throwing a free show on Friday night for fans that didn’t get to see them because of the rain and potential lightning threat.

The free show is set for Friday night, upstairs at Fitzgerald’s, and the band asks that you RSVP for the event through their management team, The Convoy Group.

Doors open at 8 p.m. and the bill includes electronic act Wrestlers, rapper Fat Tony, and BLSHS on hand as supporting acts. Both Wrestlers and BLSHS made themselves a few new fans at last weekend’s festival too.

“It has been a while since we have played Houston, so we were really disappointed when the show got canceled due to the weather. As soon as we found out we were not going to play, we immediately thought about a free show,” said Tontons bassist Tom Nguyen. “We haven’t done anything like this in a long time so this show is going to be tight.”

After Friday’s show, the band heads to Philadelphia to be a part of a June 20 charity concert thrown by former Houston Texans player and current Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Connor Barwin for his Make The World Better Foundation, on a bill which includes Kurt Vile. From there they will play the Firefly Fest, which boasts both the Foo Fighters and Outkast as headliners. In late July they will be at the Pemberton Music Festival.

The Tontons released “Make Out King and Other Stories of Love” earlier this year. Chronicle music writer, Joey Guerra, calls it a “terrific album that beautifully showcases the band’s mix of rock, soul, jazz and pop.”